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  • A woman holds a magazine with her hair in rollers under a hair dryer with an interview about how to talk about AIDS; an advertisement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1991.
  • A woman holds a magazine with her hair in rollers under a hair dryer with an interview about how to talk about AIDS; an advertisement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Black and white lithograph, 1991.
  • Adiantum venustum D.Don Adiantaceae (although placed by some in Pteridaceae). Himalayan maidenhair fern. Small evergreen hardy fern. Distribution: Afghanistan-India. It gains its vernacular name from the wiry black stems that resemble hairs. Adiantum comes from the Greek for 'dry' as the leaflets remain permanently dry. The Cherokee used A. pedatum to make their hair shiny. Henry Lyte (1576), writing on A. capillus-veneris, notes that it restores hair, is an antidote to the bites of mad dogs and venomous beasts
  • The "Hazeline" brand of the active principles distilled from the bark of witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana... / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • The "Hazeline" brand of the active principles distilled from the bark of witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana... / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • The "Hazeline" brand of the active principles distilled from the bark of witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana... / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • The "Hazeline" brand of the active principles distilled from the bark of witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana... / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • The "Hazeline" brand of the active principles distilled from the bark of witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana... / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
  • Buddleia (Buddleja davidii) leaf
  • Calendula officinalis L. Asteraceae. Pot marigold, common marigold, ruds or ruddles. Calendula, because it was said to flower most commonly at the first of each month - the 'calends' (Coles, 1657). officinalis indicates that it was used in the 'offices' - the clinics - of the monks in medieval times. Annual herb. Distribution: Southern Europe. The Doctrine of Signatures, indicated that as the flowers resembled the pupil of the eye (along with Arnica, Inula and the ox-eye daisy), it was good for eye disorders (Porta, 1588). Coles (1658) writes '... the distilled water ... helpeth red and watery eyes, being washed therewith, which it does by Signature, as Crollius saith'. Culpeper writes: [recommending the leaves] '... loosen the belly, the juice held in the mouth helps the toothache and takes away any inflammation, or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little vinegar.' The petals are used as a saffron substitute - ‘formerly much employed as a carminative
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.